Of the big rooms I liked CAT & Magico, Karan & Wynn Audio, Piego & BAT. The Doshi room was also good. I thought Bending Wave's room was good this year the ARC was a good match with the Gobel.
I saw two Alta Audio rooms that were good. There was a Bel Canto room with I think Audio Vector speakers that was very good, I think what helped was their room treatments. Another smaller room I thought stood out was Unison Research with Opera speakers, 845 tubes sounding good. I heard a very impressive room with the A1's but it was Friday and I can't remember the electronics. Dr. Vinyl's room was very good Socorro TT, Magari electronics with Usher speakers. One of the Alta was with Infigo Audio, good sounding room.
Clairisys rooms were good, I preferred them with Constellation. (Brian, Larry, Jack from PA or anyone else who used to be on AR, Florian is the same guy who used to post with us. He is a really nice guy and it's very cool to see what he has done for himself. I also ran into HarleyGuy there aka Doug.)
Did anyone see the Orchestros speakers? I think they were the only audio room with a video monitor. The speakers had the drivers on arms. Not being able to see them I can't explain them. I do know they sounded good especially considering they were only driven with a Vincent integrated with built-in DAC. The guys were extra friendly and had quite a sense of humor.
I also liked the MSB who was using Magico speakers, M2's. My first visit they were playing a Steely Dan track I know very well, there was so much fine detail revealed but it was in a musical way, inner woven in the performance, not at all analytical.
I thought the Acora with VAC sounded good.
Since my statement last year caused such a stir when I mentioned playing turntables, this year I counted and at least a dozen rooms were playing or played a
turntable when aske considering the numbr of overall rooms not a good percentage
I did check out some headphones, became a Dan Clark fan.
I need to find my card so I can provide more info, I saw a anti vibration board for turntables made of wood but the top has a groove around it which fits an acrylic top. This is very reasonable and a great find for Rega, Clear Audio or others who do not supply a dust cover. The entire package is cheaper than most just covers I've price and they look like good quality.